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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late 19th century. In 1940, 30.5 million Americans lived on farms. Only 10.5 million remain. Now the city-bound flow has slowed to a trickle. According to new data compiled by the Agriculture Department, the farm labor force (age 14 or older) has remained static during the past two years...
Urban life today is such that at least a third of the past decade's migrants in Chicago and other cities tell pollsters that they want to go home. Clearly, they cannot return until rural conditions improve. As Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin has proposed: "We must help create in rural America adequate job opportunities, adequate educational, library and other cultural facilities, adequate medical and dental services and all the other essentials of a good life...
...gone, you don't say that there is a vacuum. You say that God is gone." Yet most thoughtful blacks today would reject this exaggeration. The Rev. Channing Phillips, a black favorite-son candidate from Washington at last year's Democratic Convention, insists that the time is past when a man can lead black people simply by the brilliance of his rhetoric. The alternatives to the King style of leadership, however, are far from obvious. Straight separation and extreme nationalism are plainly not the answer...
...Georgos S. Seferiades, 69, who under the pen name George Seferis won the 1963 Nobel Prize for literature for his lyrical poetry and his "deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture." Seferiades has lived in seclusion in Athens since retiring as ambassador to London in 1962. For the past two years he has published nothing in Greece as a political protest against the military regime running the country...
...Soviet approach is working fairly well. In the past year, Soviet trade with Singapore has grown to nearly $40 million, and the Soviets apparently would like access to the British naval base for their own growing Pacific trading fleet when the Union Jack is hauled down in 1971. In two short years, the Soviets have become the largest purchasers of Malaysian rubber. As the flag follows trade, they have opened an embassy in Kuala Lumpur. They are offering the Japanese the opportunity to share in the development of Siberia's natural riches; one deal concerning timber has already been...